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[QUOTE="omniorange, post: 2740112, member: 636"]
It certainly is a possible way to get around the current rule that exist, but you are definitely downplaying the confusion for fans and considering how the ACC got to the current set-up perhaps avoiding thinking about the viability of it?

I visit lots of message boards and hear fans say the very same thing.  Then someone asks them to do a mock draft of how that works and if they bother to attempt it, they are usually torn to shreds because it is easy to conceive of the principle behind the set-up but the devil, as usual, is in the details.

Examples I have seen:

Some suggest one pod could be FSU-Miami-Clemson-GT and the usual counter-arguments are that is too tough a pod (which could hurt the teams the league/TV want to get to the CFP), "but GT must play Duke annually", "Miami must play VT annually", etc.

The other pod that some fans believe is a slam dunk is the UNC, NC State, Duke, Wake pod.  Until the counter-arguments begin - too weak a pod, Duke must play GT annually, UNC must play UVA annually, etc.

And the same is probably true of mock 3-5-5 proposals as well.  But the difference is that at least it begins with something sports fans are used to as in ACC men's basketball where there are two annual opponents (home-and-away), an additional two more home-and-away opponents that are rotated over the years, and then 10 other opponents you are NOT playing home-and-away that year you play 5 on the road and the other 5 at home. Just in football get rid of the home and away the same year, expand the two annual opponents to three and then take the remaining 10 teams and play 5 of them in year 1 and year 2 and then play the other five year 3 and year 4.

Cheers,
Neil
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